{"id":395,"date":"2005-07-25T18:38:23","date_gmt":"2005-07-25T22:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/07\/25\/sony-admits-paola-scam\/"},"modified":"2005-07-25T18:38:23","modified_gmt":"2005-07-25T22:38:23","slug":"sony-admits-paola-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/07\/25\/sony-admits-paola-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"SONY Admits Paola Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sony
\n BMG, the world’s second-biggest record label, has agreed to pay $10m
\n and stop paying radio station employees
\n to play its artists’ songs<\/p>\n

The settlement follows an investigation into "pay for play" practices
\n in the music industry, conducted by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.<\/p>\n

The probe found "air time is often determined by undisclosed payoffs," said
\n Mr Spitzer on Monday.<\/p>\n

Record companies in the US cannot offer financial incentives under a 1960
\n law.<\/p>\n

Nothing new under the sun. Stands to reason that
\n in this season of unbridled capitalism lots of old scams are bound
\n to try
\n to make comebacks. Interest-only mortgages, gutted pension funds
\n or multi-level marketing, anyone?<\/em><\/p>\n

from the
\n BBC<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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